Cathedral Article

I thought that the article was interesting because of the blind guy.  He was very educated even though he could not see.  He seemed to be very interested to learn the things that he did not know.  A good example was the cathedral.  He made the narrator draw a picture so that he could know what the cathedral looked like. 

I did not like the article very much because it did not have a climax or a point to read it.  I kept waiting for something surprising to happen but nothing did.  I also did not like the beginning because I found it a bit confusing.  I could not figure out which characters were related to each.  

Final Project

When we we're assigned this project, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do. I wanted my work to be creative. I've always wondered what it'd be like to literally see sound. Since it isn't really possible to literally see sound, I asked Michael for his advice. He suggested I put my headphones on and close my eyes and paint what I hear. I did this, but it didn't turn out as nice as I expected, so I decided to go to down a different route. I didn't want to completely change my idea, so I decided to try to make something with the idea of the brain or illusions.

For the first piece, I was doodling around with some brushes, and one of my doodles sort of looked like a girls face and hair. It looked very spiritual, so I decided to play around with it. I made a copy of this layer and flipped it horizontally to show some symmetry. I decided I wanted this to represent a soul or a human mind. I made 2 rubix cubes and put them at the top two corners to represent intelligence. The right side has ripples behind it in a straight path to represent the logical side of the human mind. The left side has a sort of crooked path of ripples, representing the creative side of the human mind. I tried to use the original woman face and distort it. This would represent the devil side of a soul. The two woman would represent the angels of the soul. I decided to add a symbol to represent a human in the design. The body is pulling the mind and soul together to create mind, body, and soul. The human has yellow teeth to represent the shallowness and greed of human race.

The next piece is representing the evolution of a mind. I chose to make a creature with human like parts but not actually a human, because I believe human intelligence is not the only type of intelligence in the universe. The smallest creature has the least amount of lightbulbs, because he represents the youngest. The largest has the most lightbulbs, because he represents the oldest. The oldest has many layers to represent wisdom of an evolved creature. And from a human perspective, these layers represent the evolution of the mind creating dimensions. Humans have gone from "the world is flat" to "the world is round" to "heaven and hell" to "the 4th dimension" to "string theory (11 dimensions)" and so on and so forth. I find this very interesting, so I decided to show this in this piece.

The final piece is to represent an intelligent mind at work. The intelligent mind of course, being mine. This work began with the creature in the 2nd piece. I used this piece and looked for specific lines from the drawing I could use to create something else. Whatever I could see that could fit within the restraints of the lines, I would draw. This piece would look different for every person that tried to recreate it. I'm almost positive I couldn't remake this piece. It shows just how amazing and unique the intelligent mind really is. 

Hook Project

The day we learned about this project, I couldn't find my headphones. I received the words "cut" and "hook" and I thought to myself immediately, "It'd be cool to hook my headphones to myself, so I wouldn't spend so much time looking for them." I decided to use my friend's hook shaped earrings and hook my headphones to them, so they would always stay connected to/close to my ears. The 4 steps are the process of pulling my headphones dangling from the hook earrings up and into my ears. I slowly took steps pulling the main cord downwards and the headphones latched on to the earrings slowly moved closer to my ears. The third step is my headphones directly touching my ears and the fourth step is my headphones finally entering my ears to listen to music. I edited the 4 pictures a little on photoshop to make the headphones slowly moving upwards more apparent. The backgrounds are a little faded because they are not important to the main idea of the photo collage. 

Time Magazine

Project 4

This is the image I chose to make for the cartoon/super power project. When I first started this project, I didn't know what super power I wanted, so I thought it'd be cool to make a cartoon. I've always wanted to make a picture of an area with a wall covered in graffiti and have a cartoon character walking away carrying spray paint. I didn't know where to begin, so I decided to start making the design of the graffiti on the wall. I chose to create a GRiZ logo because I was listening to him that day, so it was on my mind. I got really into making the graffiti logo and liked how it was going. I decided that I would just use the logo as my main picture, because it can represent someone or something. Every great super hero in history has a logo of their own which represents them. In my opinion, I think GRiZ has super powers when it comes to making music. I don't think their are very many limitations on what is considered a super power, so I figured this could be considered one. So, this design is a way of showing a super power from a different perspective rather than the normal super powers like invisibility or flight.